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Protest and profanation: Agrarian revolt and the little tradition, Part II
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The authors argue that the moral and political ideas of the little tradition achieve historical visibility only at those moments when it becomes mobilized into dissident movements which pose a direct threat to ruling elites, and that there is a shadow history which remains to be written for almost every mass movement in the Third World.Abstract:
Perhaps one reason why political scientists and historians generally overlook the moral and political ideas of the little tradition is that both, unlike the anthropologist, tend to concentrate on the written record-the product, par excellence, of the great tradition. The little tradition achieves historical visibility only at those moments when it becomes mobilized into dissident movements which pose a direct threat to ruling elites. It is for this reason that I have had to rely so heavily on evidence from millenial revolts in constructing my argument. Yet it seems to me that there is a “shadow history” which remains to be written for almost every mass movement in the Third World.read more
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Lagging Emulation in Post-Peasant Society1
TL;DR: The concept of lagging emulation as mentioned in this paper is based on the assumption that the desire for prestige, or social status, or achievement is a basic motive in all cultures and societies; that to some extent this motive enters into the conscious awareness of the participants in a society-it becomes a felt need, in Erasmus' terms (Erasmus 1961: 12-13, 309); and that a frequently occurring means for satisfying the need is to emulate the behavior of those strata of society to which prestige is already firmly attached.